Eric Green quotes from Jericho

Eric

[about his torture] It’s not about Hawkins. They wanna know about Jericho. What our defenses are like, do we have any troops, where are they posted, do we have a stock pile of weapons, that sort of thing.

Eric

We will. We’re not gonna die in here.

Johnston

If you convince me that you are living a more productive life, then..

Eric

That's right Jake.

Jake

We were both born on third base, stop pretending you hit a triple. When are you going to realize I am 32 years old?

Johnston

When you do.

Eric

Do you realize a nuclear bomb went off yesterday?

So? If I'm going to die in a nuclear blast, so be it. I'll be right here, playing pool with my buddies.

Eric

But you're not going to die in a blast. You're going to get radiation poisoning. Within the first couple of hours you're going to be vomiting and have crippling diarrhea. Your hair is going to fall out in chunks. Your skin is going to blister. Your internal organs are going to start to shut down. Because, well, frankly....they're being cooked from the inside. You're going to get sicker and sicker until you can't move. And then you will die. Over there on the floor by the pool table....with your buddies.

Eric

Well, if we’re sending missiles they must have figured out who attacked us.

God Bless America.

Jake

Could have just decided to take out one of the usual suspects.

Johnston

Which means there could be more missiles headed in our direction.

Gail

Well, is this the federal response we’ve all been waiting for?

Gray

Are you going somewhere?

Eric

My father needs medication, stuff we don't have in town. Me and Jake are going to Rogue River to find it.

Gray

Are sure that that's a good idea?

Eric

Not really.

Gray

You be careful out there. You don't stop for anything. You don't even slow down. I mean it.

Eric

We'll be back before morning. Do you mind keeping an eye on things here?

Gray

Of course, don't worry about it.

Jake

You haven’t said anything for miles, stay sharp.

Eric

What happened to you Jake?

Jake

What do you mean?

Eric

The last five years, where were you? I’m assuming jail. Why won’t you tell me?

Jake

Why does it matter?

Eric

Because all that time, I stood and I watched Mom and Dad suffer. Every time the phone rang they thought it was you. I used to hate calling the house because we sound the same on the phone. I couldn’t listen to them realizing it was only me.

Jake

I’m sorry, all right. I’m sorry for what I did to our family. But don’t use me as an excuse for not getting on with your life.

Eric

What’s that suppose to mean?

Jake

You wouldn’t be the first guy to leave his wife, Eric. Look, I’m not telling you to leave her. I’m just saying….

Eric

I didn’t know Rogue River had a SWAT team.

Jake

They don’t. These guys aren’t cops. They’re government contractors; a private army, a firm, called Ravenwood.

Eric

What are mercenaries doing in Kansas?

Jake

The same thing they’ve been doing in Iraq and New Orleans. The military’s been stretched so thin the past few years mercenaries became a commodity. The real question is did they kill these people?

Eric

Okay, let’s talk.

April

When I, uh…had the divorce papers drafted. I did that because I couldn’t see a future for us, [holds Eric’s hand] but now I can.

Eric

I can’t.

April

What?

Eric

Look, the last thing I want to do on this Earth is hurt you April, but I’m in love with someone else.

April

[gasps] Who?

Eric

Mary Bailey. April, look April….April..I’m sorry

April

No, you don’t get to do this. You son of a bitch. [April walks away]

Eric

What are you talking about?

Johnston

April’s pregnant, I just found out myself.

Eric

And I got to hear this from you?

Johnston

Well, I shouldn’t be the one telling you. I’ll probably be in the doghouse till next Thanksgiving but I thought you ought to know.

Johnston

Let me get this straight. We’re talking about Vietnam era planes flying through Kansas airspace doing a Chinese drop and they’re using U.S. Air Force equipment to do it.

Robert

Sounds about right.

Eric

In what world does that make sense?

Jake

Ours.

Mary

I’m so cold my mouth is numb.

Eric

We need the logs or we’re going to freeze to death.

Mary

Isn’t that what we are doing now?

Eric

All right. Let’s get in the car. A blanket.

Mary

Let’s turn on the heat.

Eric

We can’t I’m sorry, we won’t have enough gas to get home. You know we could make our own heat.

Mary

Don’t get any ideas I ‘m not taking my clothes off.

Eric

You know how happy you make me.

Mary

I’m still not taking my clothes off.

Eric

[about his mother] You should be glad she's not here. She would have thrown that new history book right in the president's face.

Gray

Oh, come on…

Eric

He wasn't elected, Gray. How does a government no one voted for change the constitution? We found time to have an election. Of all people I think you would have remembered that.

Eric

When April died all I could think about was I hadn't done enough. That it was my fault.

Stanley

When my parents died I did that. I blamed myself, and I hated myself for being alive. But there was this little girl to take care of.

Eric

I know that this is harder. When your parents died, that was an accident. An act of God.

Stanley

Aren't they all?